Turkiye's 90-year-old "plant memory" is under protection at Ankara University

ANKARA, TURKIYE - JULY 04: Dried flowers are seen at "ANK Herbarium" founded in 1933 by the German botanist Kurt Krause and his assistant Hikmet Birand within the Faculty of Agriculture of Ankara University in Ankara, Turkiye on July 04, 2023. The unit, which is Turkiye's first herbarium where dried plant samples are stored by pressing, is a guide for botanical researchers and students with approximately 250 thousand plant samples. (Photo by Esra Hacioglu Karakaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)